Um, duh? Does anyone understand how long it takes to build manufacturing equipment or the buildings meant to house it all? Or if that equipment can even reasonably be manufactured itself? Or if there are even enough people to do the work? Or if enough of those people are educated well enough to do the work? Or if there’s money anywhere to make any of that possible at all never mind within a reasonable timeframe?

Gap? Lol the difference would be better measured in AU. China has been manufacturing pretty much everything on earth for decades.

Ya, no shit.

Been saying this about tariffs for months:

Say you have cash on hand, or the ability to get a monster loan, to start a factory. You would be a fool to build in the US!

You know the tariffs will be disastrous and eventually repealed, and we’re seeing both actions right now. So even if tariffs allow you to compete with imports, the rug will get yanked out from under you at some point. And there you are, holding the bag on a brand-new, worthless factory.

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